Improvement in ventilators for hats



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

HENRY A. HOUSE, OF BRIDGEPORT,CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN VENTILATORS FOR HATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 113,054, dated March 28, 1871.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY A. HOUSE, of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Ventilator for Hats and Gaps, and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a hat having myimproved ventilator applied to it. Fig. 2 is a diametrical section through the hat.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts in the several iigures.

The nature of my invention consists in a hat or cap which has its sweat-band isolated from its body by means of two annular wire coils, which are separated so as to leave a space between them, and which serve as means by which the sweat-band is sewed to the headcovering, as will be hereinafter explained.

The following is a description of my invention:

In the accompanying drawing, a b represent two small coils ot' wire, which are sewed between the sweat-band A and the body of the cap. The coils are made of ne wire,and are arranged at such a distance apart as to leave an air-circulating space, c, between them all around the cap.

The coil a serves to keep open the channel between the sweat-band and cap at the lower edge of the band, and this coil a serves as a means for allowing this edge of the band A to i be sewed to the hat.

The coil b, which is near the upper edge of the been A, is intended te prevent this edge from being pressed closely against the body of the cap when drawn upon the head. This upper coil, b, also serves to keep open the space o when the hat is on the head.

I am aware that coils of wire have been introduced between sweat-bands and head-coverings for allowing ventilation, and I do not cla-im, broadly, this feature.

I am also aware that it is not new to introduce a single iiattened coil between the body of a hat and its sweat-band. Such a coil, it' made wide enough, might answer very well, so far as ventilation is concerned; but it is obvious that it would vbe very sti and uncomfortable tothe head of the wearer.

By the employment of two small coils ot tine wire, separated by a space, c, the passage between the sweat-band and hat will be kept open. At Athe same time that portion of the sweat-band which is between the two coils will accommodate itself comfortably to the head,

' and neither coil will press hard on the head.

Having described my invention, I claim- The combination, with a head-covering and its sweat-band, of two spring-coils, a b, and an intermediate chamber, c, said coils being sewed to the hat and sweat-band, as shown and described.

HENRY A. HOUSE.

Witnesses GEORGE C. BISHOP, J. A. VINToN. 

